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Hehe yeah. If there were an index for scientific papers that tracked a ratio between the numbers of times they are cited by science peers vs. non-scientists/outside their field, this paper would definitely be in the bottom-10, or tied in last place at a ratio of 0.000

On the other hand... isn't Harrit's paper one of the most frequently opened/cited papers among non-scientists/laymen? I just wonder.
Just take me... Since I'm rather chaotic in organizing my PC documents, I'm always lazy to find my copy of the paper in some folder; therefore I always download the paper directly from the Bentham web. And I have opened it at least two hundred times last two years, clearly contributing to its "internet success

Five days old, has 5 signatures right now, needs 25,000 by December 14

(As for the other six petitons: I am still tracking, but you haven't missed a thing, all are pretty quiet.)

That was November 19th.
This petittion now has 12 signatures down 24,988 to go

The other six petitions I have been monitoring have attracted this many signatures per day in recent monts:

So five of them are down to background trickle of 0-1 per day, and only the AE911Truth peition at change.org (not to be confused with their main A&E Petition) has a bottom level of ca. 5 per day - that was the level in August, October and November. Only September was an exception. Reason: the 11th anniversary drew scores of visitors to the ae911truth.org website on 09/11/12 - here a chart of page views per day in the last 4 months:

That site has people sign, and then send emails to Congresspeople. I usually count the signers. So far, only Robert M. has signed, though not been counted, which makes me suppose it's the initiator of that petition, and he has sent 4 "Letters" so far.

Blogger "RL McGee" announced this today at 911Blogger, so I suppose RL McGee is this Robert M. person from Kinston, NC.

I shall monitor

Meanwhile, four of the six petition I kept monitoring are dead as ever, without a single signature among them in March so far and a total of 2,325 since they started in last year's February-May.
Jon Gold's "statement" picks up about 1 signature per day and has 1310 since August.

Only Richard Gage's "family petition" has taken off since yesterday, as they sent out an action alert to all their old AE911Truth Petition signers and newsletter recipients. They are today getting signatures at a pace of almost 1000 per day - but that will wane in a few days, when the email grows old and is forgotten.

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Only Richard Gage's "family petition" has taken off since yesterday, as they sent out an action alert to all their old AE911Truth Petition signers and newsletter recipients. They are today getting signatures at a pace of almost 1000 per day - but that will wane in a few days, when the email grows old and is forgotten.

I said it before, I'll say it again: 9/11 Truth is utterly out of touch with reality!

"Sign the AE911Truth FAMILY MEMBER PETITIONHelp us reach 1 Million Signatures!"

The same evening, they mailed out an "action alert" to their signers and newsletter recipient - such as yours truly. They sent my mail on "Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:58:56 -0800" - so that's explicitly Pacific Time now, UT-8 hours. March 8th, 2am my time (central Europe).

It had 2,613 since June of last year by the end of March 6th, picking up only 1 or 2 signatures per day.
A day later, or more precisely 24 hours 15 minutes later, the count was at 3,474, and again 24:15 hours later at 4,482 - 878 and 998 new signatures per day! They'd "only" need 1,000 days like these to reach 1 million. Never before has any truther petition seen this many new signatures! But 40-50% of these came from people who had previously signed the old A&E-petition, so it was an effect of them mailing to 18,000 or more of the people they had collected through 6 long years of marketing and campaigning.

Would this go viral?
Of course not!

By te next day, end of March 9th, the pace was down to 181 signatures/day and by March 10th further down to 95:

At that pace, it would take 27 years to reach 1 million!

It's not like change.org is a bad place to launch petitions. Lots of petitions there go into the tens and hundreds of thousands of signatures. No problem for popular issues like animal and human rights, personalized stories like needy children, and also for issues related to topics that enjoy widespread campaigning such as the environment or lesbian an gay rights. But here are a few not-so-sexy issues that are listed under "Popular - This week":

TSA: DO NOT allow knives on airplanes!. This has 9440 signatures; had reached 2,500 on March 06, so it was more than 3 times as popular as Gage's piece. A topic that's indirectly related to 9/11: The signers probably believe that on 9/11, planes were hijacked by extremists armed with light weapons such as small knives.

So Gage wants to make his supporters believe their movement can mobilze a million?? He is either very seriously deluded about his reach and the standing of his claims in the population, or he lied. When the effect of ,ailing his couple of tenthousand faithful on the fringe has faded, this petition will again fall dormant, at little more than 5000 signatures, and have failed to reach the goal by a factor of 200.

That site has people sign, and then send emails to Congresspeople. I usually count the signers. So far, only Robert M. has signed, though not been counted, which makes me suppose it's the initiator of that petition, and he has sent 4 "Letters" so far.
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"Sign the AE911Truth FAMILY MEMBER PETITIONHelp us reach 1 Million Signatures!"

The same evening, they mailed out an "action alert" to their signers and newsletter recipient - such as yours truly. They sent my mail on "Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:58:56 -0800" - so that's explicitly Pacific Time now, UT-8 hours. March 8th, 2am my time (central Europe).

It had 2,613 since June of last year by the end of March 6th, picking up only 1 or 2 signatures per day.
A day later, or more precisely 24 hours 15 minutes later, the count was at 3,474, and again 24:15 hours later at 4,482 - 878 and 998 new signatures per day! They'd "only" need 1,000 days like these to reach 1 million. Never before has any truther petition seen this many new signatures! But 40-50% of these came from people who had previously signed the old A&E-petition, so it was an effect of them mailing to 18,000 or more of the people they had collected through 6 long years of marketing and campaigning.

Would this go viral?
Of course not!

By te next day, end of March 9th, the pace was down to 181 signatures/day and by March 10th further down to 95:

At that pace, it would take 27 years to reach 1 million!

And of course it went downhill from there: Only 10-20 signatures per day in the last week. At that pace, Gage will have to wait over 136 years to reach his goal of 1 million.

Here is how the petition did till the end of March (I usually take data points shortly after midnight in California, which is after 9 am here):

I chopped off the peak for the 7th and 8th of March, which was 938 signatures per day average for those two days. This mailing action to promote the petition got Gage more signatures than the last 9/11 anniversary did. But look at this in relation to the 1 million goal - I scaled the left y-axis to 1,000,000 for the total number goal, and the right y-axis to 3000/day, which is what they'd need every day for a whole year to reach that million:

The one-off peak reaches only one third of what Gage would need, and most of the rest is hugging zero. How decoupled from reality can this man be??

Since I posted this, on March 10, Gage's petition has won about 800 further signatures.

Meanwhile, some other petitions that I had picked at random with a view to them being unsexy have also gained signatures:

Originally Posted by Oystein

It's not like change.org is a bad place to launch petitions. Lots of petitions there go into the tens and hundreds of thousands of signatures. No problem for popular issues like animal and human rights, personalized stories like needy children, and also for issues related to topics that enjoy widespread campaigning such as the environment or lesbian an gay rights. But here are a few not-so-sexy issues that are listed under "Popular - This week":

TSA: DO NOT allow knives on airplanes!. This has 9440 signatures; had reached 2,500 on March 06, so it was more than 3 times as popular as Gage's piece. A topic that's indirectly related to 9/11: The signers probably believe that on 9/11, planes were hijacked by extremists armed with light weapons such as small knives.

So 9/11 Truth beats a traffic light and CourtTV. I guess they can hail that as a significant and unprecedented success ^^ But many more people believe that hijackers took four planes with small knives on 9/11 - the "official" story.

Started yesterday, 11 signatures so far.
Needs 100,000. By April 10
Good luck!

Oh when wil they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

This one at the White House petition site hs done relatively well for a truther petition: Had a slow start, but perhaps was picked up by some fairly well read truther site, and surpassed 500 signatures in just 21 days:

But of course, at the White House, a petition must reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days to be considered! 9/11 Truth has millions of faithful believers, right? So getting 100,000 should be easy - not.

Same graph, scaled to 100,000 total signatures / 3000/day (you'd need an average oif 3,334 to get to 100,000) and 30 days - this illustrates how utterly pathetic the tiny fringe is that we are dealing with here:

Finally, here is an summary graph of 8 truther petitions that I have been following since last summer. I have five that been under 1 signature/day for month, two of those haven't got one other for months now (note - logarithmic scale; values of zero have been substituted by 0.004 so the graph would not be undefined there and instead drop below the baseline):

Visualizing their (lack of) success and support vs. stated or implied goals of reaching a million or 100,000 signatures.
Concluding with my opinion that the truthers who state such hopes are probably sincere, but deluded: They don't have "millions" on their side. They actually document again and again that there are no more than some thoudands of individuals worldwide who care for "9/11 Twoof". A tiny fringe.

Visualizing their (lack of) success and support vs. stated or implied goals of reaching a million or 100,000 signatures.
Concluding with my opinion that the truthers who state such hopes are probably sincere, but deluded: They don't have "millions" on their side. They actually document again and again that there are no more than some thoudands of individuals worldwide who care for "9/11 Twoof". A tiny fringe.

Good stuff, Oystein!

As per your insightful comment, "one, or both, of the following must be true:

Scholars Call for Release of 9/11 Information:
Petition is closed at 22,736 signatures.
The WayBackMachine has its first capture in december 2010 - but doesn't display the current number there. Unreliable.
Signature lists ends on an April 19 (no year displayed ) - so can't be 2013. I am currently going back in the list - this ran at least 4 years. The petition has a signature by Fetzer and Jones with the date March 07, 2006, but the first signatures came in on March 06.

Last edited by Oystein; 12th April 2013 at 05:23 AM.
Reason: Edited last sence (ETA, and month corrected May to March)

Scholars Call for Release of 9/11 Information:
Petition is closed at 22,736 signatures.
The WayBackMachine has its first capture in december 2010 - but doesn't display the current number there. Unreliable.
Signature lists ends on an April 19 (no year displayed ) - so can't be 2013. I am currently going back in the list - this ran at least 4 years. The petition has a signature by Fetzer and Jones with the date March 07, 2006, but the first signatures came in on March 06.

Then where's all the evidence for the millions of people who are "waking up"? The "85% of the world now know 9/11 was an inside job"? "We're now the majority"?

Where does all that stem from?

__________________Can you people please stop not thinking? - Gorgonian

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
-Good luck America with President Trump

" In my opinion, all these petitions document that, today, "9/11 Truth" is a fringe issue that no more than a few thousand individuals worldwide have an actual interest in.

I suspect that the "truth" leaders who set up such petitions are sincere in their belief that they have "millions" on their side, and that they sincerely believe to break into widespread popular support any day now, and that thus their hope to at least approach 1 million of signatures isn't far-fetched.

These "truth" leaders are deluded. They live in a tiny bubble, frequent echo chambers, where the fringe few thousands mutually amplify their delusions. "

These two old petitions, one from late 2001, one from March 2006, gathered ten times as many signatures in their first year than today's best could. Those were the golden days of 9/11 Twoof. Rather than reaching a tipping point towards world domination, da Twoof is sinking more and more into oblivion - demonstrably.

" In my opinion, all these petitions document that, today, "9/11 Truth" is a fringe issue that no more than a few thousand individuals worldwide have an actual interest in.

I suspect that the "truth" leaders who set up such petitions are sincere in their belief that they have "millions" on their side, and that they sincerely believe to break into widespread popular support any day now, and that thus their hope to at least approach 1 million of signatures isn't far-fetched.

These "truth" leaders are deluded. They live in a tiny bubble, frequent echo chambers, where the fringe few thousands mutually amplify their delusions. "

These two old petitions, one from late 2001, one from March 2006, gathered ten times as many signatures in their first year than today's best could. Those were the golden days of 9/11 Twoof. Rather than reaching a tipping point towards world domination, da Twoof is sinking more and more into oblivion - demonstrably.

This is all fantastic and painstaking work, Oystein. Yes, you stated it well: a fringe issue with few supporters. I question if there are any true believers in a "9/11 Was An Inside Job" theory at all or if their motivations are mostly financial [Gage] or simply anti-govt swayings. It will be interesting to see, 20 years from now, which will be the 30 year period of the heyday of Kennedy Assassination leanings that peaked with Oliver Stone's "JFK" movie, if there becomes a period of 9/11 CT theory that enjoys wide spread acceptance. The proliferation of the internet was certainly the breeding ground for 9/11 to have enjoyed it's peak popularity in the first 5 years, but I would also conclude that it has been the internet that has helped to push it to its fringe status.

__________________Can you people please stop not thinking? - Gorgonian

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
-Good luck America with President Trump

Visualizing their (lack of) success and support vs. stated or implied goals of reaching a million or 100,000 signatures.
Concluding with my opinion that the truthers who state such hopes are probably sincere, but deluded: They don't have "millions" on their side. They actually document again and again that there are no more than some thoudands of individuals worldwide who care for "9/11 Twoof". A tiny fringe.

Originally Posted by Oystein

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These two old petitions, one from late 2001, one from March 2006, gathered ten times as many signatures in their first year than today's best could. Those were the golden days of 9/11 Twoof. Rather than reaching a tipping point towards world domination, da Twoof is sinking more and more into oblivion - demonstrably.

1 1/2 years later. I had lost interest (and haven't regained it in earnest).

In the meantime, in October 2013, JM Talboo had written a reply to my blog post on his Debunking the Debunkers blog: http://911debunkers.blogspot.de/2013...polls-and.html
Points to the Rethink911 petition (then at 14,616 signatories, now already near 20,000), and various opinion polls, to refute my assertion that da Truth is a fringe issue only a few thousand people in the world care for.
Well, I think he just makes my point. There is a LOT of heavily funded advertising behind the Rethink campaign, and still they fail to even match the 22,300 signers that AE911T has so far, after more than 7 years. All the other petions nowadays fail even worse.

A propos ReThink911 petition: It started (apparently, I am not completely sure) in early September 2013, got over 3000 signatures almost instantly (or so it appears, looking back on the WayBackMachine) and now stands at 19,821 signatures.
Sounds impressive, eh?
As you would expect, most signatures came early on:

Twenty Thousand seems like some sort of success, BUT they have a different goal:

Originally Posted by Rethink-Morons

When this petition reaches one million signers, it will be delivered to the Head of State of every nation that lost citizens in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Ok, let's scale the plot to the goal of 1 million signers:

After spending tens of thousands of dollars on billboards and what not, and more than a year, they are still under 2% of their goal?? Who exactly do they think they are kidding? To get to 1,000,000, would they have to spend millions on ads, and wait 50 years, or shouldn't they simply admit that only a few thousand persons worldwide actually take an interest in their bunk?

Oh, and these petitioners, whom are they petitioning? Here is who:

Originally Posted by ReThink-Morons

To All Authorities Who Have the Sworn Duty and Legal Authority to Investigate the Events of September 11, 2001, Including Those in the United States, Those in Other Sovereign Nations, and International Bodies

The international ad campaign and poll have been financed by more than $225,000 in donations from over 2,000 supporters of ReThink911.

2000 supporters each supposedly gave, on average, over $100, and it bought them 0.1 signatories per dollar?? Why don't they hand out 5-dollar-bills in the street in return for a god-darned signature?? Would be cheaper, mire efficient, and every bit as meaningful!

Then on Nov 16 and again on Nov 18, 51. John-Michael Talboo posted it on his facebook page (without signing himself until several days later) with more success - the following 13 of his 741 friends signed:

I also saw those names I recognize as old "Truth" war horses:
24. David Cole (aka kawika)
36. Daniel Barnum (one of Gage's more prominent architects)

Of course, my posting here 5 days ago added 23 more signatures - although I doubt they come from 23 distinct humans

Sooo of the 50 possibly real people that signed, 18 are FB friends of the initiator, Grider, and his FB friend Talboo. Given that they have a total of around 900 FB-friends, and a large portion of those are already truthers, 18 signatures (2%) is VERY weak! Plus, it doesn't apear at all like any of their friends tried to make this go viral.
What's up with these folks? Does their activism stop at sharing and liking FB entries??

Many of these truther friends are now sporting a banner on the left of their FB profile picture: "9/11 Truth USA". This is an initiative by a certain Claudio Marty, who set up a FB group "I Am The Face of Truth 911 Awareness Profile Pics" about 5 months ago, which has 3887 members today - less of 15% of which actually have this "Face of Truth" profile pic (Talboo's friends: 30%).

"2,420,000,000 users on these social networks alone. Our profile pictures have alot of potential to get these people aware that 9/11 was a fraud. If only 1% of these people woke up, that's 24,200,000 new Truthers! "

Wow, just wow! 3887 in 5 months, at that pace he'll reach 24,200,000 in just under 2600 years

Then on Nov 16 and again on Nov 18, 51. John-Michael Talboo posted it on his facebook page (without signing himself until several days later) with more success - the following 13 of his 741 friends signed:

I also saw those names I recognize as old "Truth" war horses:
24. David Cole (aka kawika)
36. Daniel Barnum (one of Gage's more prominent architects)

Of course, my posting here 5 days ago added 23 more signatures - although I doubt they come from 23 distinct humans

Sooo of the 50 possibly real people that signed, 18 are FB friends of the initiator, Grider, and his FB friend Talboo. Given that they have a total of around 900 FB-friends, and a large portion of those are already truthers, 18 signatures (2%) is VERY weak! Plus, it doesn't apear at all like any of their friends tried to make this go viral.
What's up with these folks? Does their activism stop at sharing and liking FB entries??

Many of these truther friends are now sporting a banner on the left of their FB profile picture: "9/11 Truth USA". This is an initiative by a certain Claudio Marty, who set up a FB group "I Am The Face of Truth 911 Awareness Profile Pics" about 5 months ago, which has 3887 members today - less of 15% of which actually have this "Face of Truth" profile pic (Talboo's friends: 30%).

"2,420,000,000 users on these social networks alone. Our profile pictures have alot of potential to get these people aware that 9/11 was a fraud. If only 1% of these people woke up, that's 24,200,000 new Truthers! "

Wow, just wow! 3887 in 5 months, at that pace he'll reach 24,200,000 in just under 2600 years

Chris Sarns doesn't count as an old "Truth" warhorse?

__________________"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." (Eckhart Tolle, 2004)

He was on the list you gave, and others were called out as warhorses. No biggie, just pointing it out. We can't forget dear old C7, even though he has long kept shy of here. Busy improving his MSPaintFire techniques, no doubt.

He was on the list you gave, and others were called out as warhorses. No biggie, just pointing it out. We can't forget dear old C7, even though he has long kept shy of here. Busy improving his MSPaintFire techniques, no doubt.

Ah I had misunderstood your previous post. I thought you were denying that Sarns was one, instead of suggesting it. Kinda ignored the question mark.
Laila Selk is also a name that I recognize as an old-time AE-volunteer since at least 2009.